The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and seal.

My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor.

Karl Philipp Moritz

This new subterfuge is, of course, calculated to deceive the simple and innocent into thinking that the matter is settled.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.

Charles Kingsley

Growth can also involve producing services instead of goods. In particular, a major expansion of public and caring services (like child care, education, elder care, and other life-affirming programs) would generate huge increases in GDP and incomes, with virtually no impact on the environment.

Jim Stanford

I'll get pretty much everything the way I want it. I've always dreamed of a beach wedding.

Nicole Appleton

Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials.

Helen Frankenthaler

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We can see a thousand miracles around us every day. What is more supernatural than an egg yolk turning into a chicken?

Rutherford Platt

A Master Jedi feels emotions, but they do not allow them to influence their reasoning. Yoda told Luke that he would know the good from the bad when he was 'calm, at peace.

Stephen Richards

Confidence is always overconfidence.

Robert Byrne

Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by.

Christina Rossetti

Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.

Francis Quarles